Copy-holder



(No Model.)

' W. 0. CRANE.

GOPY HOLDER.

Patented Mar. 22, 1892 Hdiiggsszs 1 Wade 0. Gram? i0. .110 13 Mqfiargeys,

. cordance with my invention.

i NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WADE O. CRANE, OF CANTON, NEW YORK.

COPY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,101, dated March22, 1892.

Application filed February 10, 1891. Serial No. 380,907. model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WADE O. CRANE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Canton, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Copy-Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to copy-holders for copyists; and the objects inview are to provide a cheap and simply-constructed holder for the abovepurpose adapted to receive one or a series of sheets to be copied and tooperate eficiently with either, to provide means for operating orfeeding the paper line by line as copied, and for exposing to the viewof the copyist merely that portion thereof upon which he is engaged.

l/Vith the above objects in view the invention consists in certainfeatures of construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointedout in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a copy-holderconstructed in ac- Fig.2 is a vertical transverse section. Fig. 3 is adetail in perspective of the frame, the view being taken from the rear.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

In practicing my invention I construct a frame-work, preferably ofsheet-brass and nickel, the same for ornamental purposes.

' This frame-work consists of opposite end walls 1, connected at theirupper ends by a transverse bar 2 and below said bar with a suhstantially S-shaped piece of metal, the lower portion of which isflattened to form a base 3, upon which the frame rests, and the upperportion forming a concaved wall at for a purpose hereinafter specified.The opposite standards or end walls 1 areeach provided with a transverseslot 5 and above the same with an inclined slot 6. A shaft 7 is mountedin the transverse slots 5 and extends beyond the same, terminating inmilled thumb disks or nuts 7 A pair of coiled springs 8 are connected attheir rear ends to the shaft and at their front ends to the edges of thestandards, so that-they draw the roll 9, mounted upon the shaft betweenthe standards, yieldingly or snugly into the concaved guide-wall 4.

The roll 9 has its periphery covered with a frictional material, such aschamois, rubber, &c. A shaft 10 is mounted in the inclined slots 6, andits ends extend beyond the slots, as shown. 10 carries an upperguide-roll 11,and outside of the standards 1 the shafts 10 and areconnected by a pair of coiled springs 12. A ratchet 13 is mounted uponone end of the shaft 7, and at one side of the ratchet is a disk 14, theratchet and disk being fixed upon the shaft. Between the ratchet anddisk there is loosely mounted on the shaft an arm 14, having a loosepawl 15 for engaging the riding over the teeth of the ratchet, and nearits free end connected to the shaft 10 by means of a coiled spring 16.The spring connecting the two shafts serves to maintain the two,

rolls in yielding contact, and a movement of one causes a movement ofthe other by reason of said contact, while the spring connecting thelever and upper shaft 10 serves to normally elevate the lever and pawland return the two when depressed.

If desired, a treadle may be employed and the same connected with thefree end of the lever by means of a wire 18. The treadle may be operatedby foot and will be precisely the same in operation as when operated byhand, which latter operation I will now proceed to to describe. The endof the copy is passed from the rear under the roll 9 and between it andthe curved guide-wall, and either or both of the thumb-nuts rotated byhand to cause the roll 9 to revolve. This serves to feed the end of thepaper around to the front of the roll,over the same, and between the tworolls to the rear. 'It will be observed that the upper edge of thecurved guide portion 4 is slightly below the small roll 11 and combineswith the latter to form a space by which observation of each successiveline of the copy may be had. .When thus mounted in the holder and whenit is desired to raise the copy to bring a new line into view, it issimply necessary to depress the lever, either by hand or through themedium of the treadle operated by the foot, and in so doing the pawl ofthe same passes over the ratchet, engages a succeeding tooth, and whenreleased said lever is drawn back or returned, and the pawl thereofserves to rotate the ratchet, and consequently the shaft 10, togetherwith its roll 11. It will thus be seen that a cheap and simplecopy-holder may be easily provided and that the same may be operated byhand or foot, raising to view only that portion of the copy upon whichthe copyist is engaged, thus avoiding repetition and other mistakesliable to occur when a whole page is exposed and, furthermore, savingtime required for finding the place. I

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination, withthe frame-work comprisingthe opposite standards having vertical andhorizontal slots and an intermediate curved guide-wall, of a pair ofshafts mounted in the slots, each shaft provided with a roll, saidshafts extending beyond the standards and one of the same provided withthumbnuts and a ratchet, a spring for forcing the lower roll into theguide-wall for yieldingly holding the upper roll upon the lower roll, alever loosely mounted on the lower shaft, a pawl pivoted to the leverand adapted to engage the ratchet, and a spring for retracting thelever, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the opposite standards having vertical andhorizontal slots and an intermediate curved wall,of a roll locatedadjacent to the curved wall and having its shafts mounted in thehorizontal slots extending beyond the same and terminating inthumb-nuts, springs connected with the shaft and with the standards, anupper shaft mounted in the vertical slots and having a roll, springsconnecting the two shafts, a ratchet and disk mounted upon one end ofthe lower shaft, a lever loosely mounted upon said shaft at one side ofthe ratchet, a pawl pivoted to the arm and engaging the ratchet, and aspring connecting the upper shaft with the lever, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aliixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VADE O. CRANE.

\Vitnesses:

J. FRED llamtonn, J'. E. .TonNsoN.

